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<flashmp3>Scolopax rusticola (song).mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <flashmp3>Scolopax rusticola (song).mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
Revision as of 09:43, 27 December 2008
- Scolopax rusticola
Identification
Distribution
Locally in Eurasia. Formally casual vagrant to eastern United States. Only one 20th century record in New Jersey.
Taxonomy
A monotypic species.
Habitat
Moist woodlands and bogs.
Behaviour
Mainly crepuscular. Woodcocks are most often to be seen on summer evenings, just as the light is dying, performing their territorial 'roding' flight. Occasionally they may be flushed from woodland during the winter, when they fly off rapidly, twisting through the trees, rather like a gamebird. As darkness falls they will leave their day-time hiding place and fly to streams, ditches and boggy areas to feed.
Bird Song
<flashmp3>Scolopax rusticola (song).mp3</flashmp3>
Listen in an external program
